Would You Use This New Proposed Punctuation Mark?
The woman behind the idea calls it an “ElRey Mark” and it’s “somewhere between the deadpan period and the excitable exclamation point.”
2. Photographer Ellen Susan’s reasoning behind the proposed new punctuation mark:
“Ellen argues, we need a new punctuation mark that resides in the emotional range between the just-the-facts period and the whoop-to-do excitability of the exclamation point. While the new mark would clearly signal positivity, it would save us from communicating with the unhinged emotionality of a note slipped between junior-high students.”
3. It would ideally be used at the end of emails, for when you’re excited, but not ~too~ excited.
4. What do you think? Is this something we need to add into our punctuation repertoire, like the snark, the punctuation mark for sarcasm.
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laurelii 3 months agoEach of these symbols is new to me, and although kinda cute, don’t really replace what I currently use to denote sarcasm (using ), or the !? together… and the ‘not too excited’ symbol, that’s just dumb. Maybe you could start writing excited meanings with an exclamation point at the beginning AND the end. !Like with Spanish!
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amjensen410 3 months agoBesides being unnecessary, it also looks ridiculous.
“Thanks!” seems casual enough to me. If you can’t properly express yourself with the wide range of characters and symbols that exist in the English language, perhaps you’d be better off picking up the phone? -
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benjaminc5 3 months agoObviously the goal of these new proposed marks is to further confuse ESL students. Think about the word “post” and how many meanings it has. That’s enough.
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